Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview: Roster of Past Participants
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From 1995-2022, the Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview, a program of the League of American Orchestras, showcased nearly 100 talented conductors in America through competitive selection. More than 50 orchestras have engaged these conductors for various appointments as a direct result of the Preview.
Past participants have included Carlos Miguel Prieto, music director of the North Carolina Symphony; Mei-Ann Chen, music director of Chicago Sinfonietta; Giancarlo Guerrero, music director of the Sarasota Orchestra; and Laura Jackson, music director of the Reno Philharmonic.
| 1995 Daniel Hege Mark Mandarano Alexander Platt Scott Speck Ya-Hui Wang Richard Westerfield Dorian Wilson | 1996 Zane Dalal Niel DePonte Grant Gershon Jeffrey Goldberg Steven Smith Markand Thakar Yaron Traub Lara Webber Peter Stafford Wilson | 1997 Robert Franz Delta David Gier Shinik Hahm Jung-Ho Pak Edward Polochick Lucas Richman Mariusz Smolij Susan Davenny Wyner |
1999 Susan Haig Karen Nixon Francisco Noya Brian Stone Alastair Willis Christopher Zimmerman | 2001 Stephen W. Alltop Giancarlo Guerrero Timothy J. Hankewich Jeffrey Pollock Carlos Miguel Prieto Andrews Sill | 2003 James Allen Anderson Mei-Ann Chen Daniel Meyer Leo Najar Scott O’Neil Byung-Hyun Rhee Mischa Santora Allen Tinkham |
2005 Dante Anzolini Darko Butorac Christopher Chen Jeffrey Domoto Shizuo Kuwahara Morihiko Nakahara Kenneth Raskin Peter Rubardt | 2007 David Charles Abell Mikhail Agrest Mikael Ayetisyan Andrew Constatine Kayoko Dan Paul Haas Jaime Morales-Matos Jean Phillipe-Tremblay | 2009 Alondra de la Parra Jeffrey Grogan Laura Jackson Kynan Johns Carolyn Kuan Ken Lam Jonathan McPhee Alexander Platt |
2011 Yaniv Dinur Christopher James Lees Marcelo Lehninger Sean Newhouse Robert Treviño Joseph Young | 2013 Joshua Gersen Keitaro Harada Gavriel Heine Vladimir Kulenovic Sameer Patel Benjamin Rous | 2016 Conner Gray Covington Roderick Cox Paul Ghun Kim Rebecca Miller Stefan Sanders |
2018 Ankush Kumar Bahl Mélisse Brunet Nadège Foofat Raúl Gómez-Rojas Lee Mills Lidiya Yankovskaya | 2022 Bertie Baigent Tong Chen Gonzalo Farias Norman Huynh Yuwon Kim François López-Ferrer |
Banner: 2018 Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview participant Ankush Kumar Bahl. Photo: Ronald Knapp
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